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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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